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Global eServices is carbon neutral. We've calculated the impact of everything that we leaves behind in the course of our daily work. All of the resources that we use - paper in the office, electricity for our servers, even the gas in our cars that bring us to the office - leaves behind some kind of soul-sucking residue in the world. When we learned that running our systems generated as much carbon dioxide we realized we had to do something. Renewable Energy Credits Putting a price on carbon output is just one way to help make the world a better place. It's a first step towards true energy sustainability. Organizations large and small are constantly working on reducing their environmental emissions. When they do so a neutral third party then steps in to verify the reduction and issues what are known as "Renewable Energy Credits".Enough of these credits have been purchase - which are retired after purchase and not resellable - to account for our energy usage. The proceeds of these credit purchases are then put toward funding further emission reduction and renewable energy projects. We are not currently able to actually power our servers with the wind or the sun, but this is the next best thing! Carbon CreditsCarbon credits credits have been purchased as well. These credits come directly from reductions that meet standards established by the Kyoto Protocol and offset emissions from projects that would otherwise not exist. What else can we do? We're always looking for more ways to reduce our resource usage around the office and the data center. We use coffee cups made from fully renewable resources. In the last couple of years we've also been deploying many more servers with notoriously power-efficient AMD processors. As processor and server technology continues to evolve we'll follow the path of power efficiency. It just makes sense! Let's make our world a better place.
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